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Hi, and thank you for your time. I just recieved my computer through UPS service. It was sent to me after I relocated. I don't think that is what is causing the freeze because my computer worked for the last day and a half since I have set it up. …

Hi, I have tried to install Oracle database but it was too big for my PC and the installation failed. But it looks like that something has been intalled and the PC has become veeery SLOW. So the problem is how to remove that **** (sorry) from the computer. When …

This whole big tweak everyone is talking about that makes firefox so much faster. Well its been around for along time. The about:config thats used I'm guessing is nothing but a registry tweak. Go to [url]http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php[/url] about 3/4 down the page you see the web pages load faster tweak?? Look …

When I got on some websites, there are several red "X" in boxes. When pointing mouse on it, it shows what the area is, but I am unable to click on it to enter that area. This doesn't happen on every website, but quite often. I hope I am explaining …

I have this problem with internet explorer 7. When browsing a web site, the advertisements in certain browsers can not be sidplayed. i noticed it here at this site. Any help.

Dear my freinds, Whould you please tell me how I can make a copy of my drive(OS drive or others) and make it bootable from cd/dvd. Good Luck and Have Fun ALL.

I am running xp as my os and have encountered the following stop err on xp start up STOP: C000021a [Fatal System Error] The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000263 (0x00000000 0x00000000) The system has been shut down If I attempt to start in …

Dear all, this's the first time I communicate in this forum. I don't know whether or not I am right to post my thread in this sub-forum, networking. My PC is unable to log on several sites, two of which are yahoo and google, which are actually not common to …

Hi, I have a problem with my modem: my computer does not detect it. I can still go on the internet but I can't play online games. I use Windows XP. Is there a way to have it detected? Thank you

Bizarre: even when I am not browsing the internet. If I turn on the computer, click start and then double-click or right click on the following: my documents, my computer, my network places, control panel or search: I get the error message above. If I wish I can then access …

I'm assuming not many people on this forum use SMS, but just in case; I'm trying to install SMS 2003 on a Dell server with W2k Pro Server OS, SP4, with MSSQL7sp3. The server is on a NT4 domain. The server was our old SMSv2 server, which I have removed …

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hi, my cd-rom won't work. It's not showing in my computer. I did the delete upper/lower filters and it worked. but now it has disappeared again & there are no upper/lower filters to delete this time. can anyone help me?

Everytime i turn on the pc i get serval things come up. First its Error Loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\fslvndya.dll Then its Error Loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\wxstofsr.dll Then finally its Microsoft visual C++ Runtime Libray C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe Here is my HiJackThis Log file. Please help me sort it out, its doing my head in. Thanks alot …

I have just built a nice new pc (my first time). I installed Windows XP Pro, but it's an old version (before SP1) and it won't let me connect to the internet. I connected my cable modem directly to the pc, but I get nothing. I tried automatically detecting settings, …

Can you steer me toward a current, correct solution to a Blue screen? Here are the specifics: STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error} The Windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000135 (0x00000000 0x00000000). The system has been shut down. I was removing some software and the …

So here's the deal -- I'm dual-booting Mac OS X and Windows XP on my MacBook. On Mac OS X, I have the clock synced to network time. And, being a good Unix system, it sets the system time to GMT. That's all fine and dandy until I install Windows, …

Until a couple of days ago, I had no problem seeing [url]http://1337share.com[/url] in IE6 under WinXP. But now, the top of the page shows several boxes with a red x in them (as a placeholder instead of the pictures that should be there, even though I have "Show pictures" checked …

I am getting a memory dump error while trying to load in XP pro. I have a K7AMA (Elitegroup motherboard, 1.3mhz with 512M Ram (which I just replaced, thinking it was bad). I ran the RAM checker and it checked out fine. This computer was working fine and then I …

hi all newbie here can anyone tell me how to fix the audio in vista just bought this comp win vista 32 bit home premium acer athlon with realtak hd audio... k... windows player and center no sound,, wont play dvd although speakers plugged in correctly volume turned up.. codecs …

I formatted my drive and reinstalled XP yesterday and now when my laptop boots up it comes to a gray screen with two OS showing with the first one highlighted. IF I agree to boot to the first one everything is fine and it goes directly to Windows. If I …

I switched on my computer, and suddenly it says no audio device found. I do not know what to do. I read on some sites that I have to reinstall the chipset but I am not sure where to do that from, and how to reinstall my audio device. Here …

I recently built a new system and am having complete lock up issues -total freeze up, no warning, stuters, slowness just an instant freeze up. It sometimes happens within a few minutes sometimes in an hour sometimes not at all for several hours. I received the following error message once …

I have a Dell Optiplex GX270, with 512M Ram. It came with a CD ROM which I just replaced with a generic IDE DVD ROM. The CD ROM was working fine. My DVD ROM will not read any files except CDA, and it won't even play those. FIle Manager says …

Hello, I am new to sharepoint, we currently run sharepoint portal 2003 and sharepoint service 2. This portal site has been up and running for quite some time. I was recently hired and tasked with getting it going, and here is my issue. Everyone in the company on the network …

[B][COLOR=#000080]When I loaded CS2 Illustrator after installing Vista I got an administrator error. I am the administrator. Any suggestions on how to rectify this? TIA! ;) [/COLOR][/B]

these two entries are alongside my normal hijackthis logfile: O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-18\..\Run: [DWQueuedReporting] "C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\DW\dwtrig20.exe" -t (User 'SYSTEM') O4 - HKUS\.DEFAULT\..\Run: [DWQueuedReporting] "C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\DW\dwtrig20.exe" -t (User 'Default user') hijackthis.de said they were Microsoft Application Error reporting. (Which i''m guessing would be from some random errors a while ago.) Does that mean they …

I wrote a windows service in .NET 2.0, but when I try to uninstall it, I get an exception. The full text for the message from my event viewer is this. [quote] The description for Event ID ( 11001 ) in Source ( MsiInstaller ) cannot be found. The local …

Hi, My WinXP Dell D610 laptop lost all installed printers. When tried to "Add Printer" by double clicking "Add Printer" icon, nothing happens (task does not start, curser doesn't change). Print Spooler was already started, so I stopped it and restarted it, no change In the "Printers and Faxes" folders, …

I tried using msconfig, regseeker, regcleaner, and the startup control panel - and in each of these, when I delete or disable the startup registry entry, something is immediately rewriting it in! So it appears as a second entry, under "run" instead of "run/disabled" Here's my HijackThis logfile: any suggestions? …

HP computer Win XPSP2 Normally, when I go to Start -->My Computer and under "Files Stored on this Computer" Normally I see: - Documents - John's Docuemnts - Jane's Documents [B]NOW ALL I SEE IS:[/B] - Documents - Jane's Documents Any ideas of how to get back "John's Documents" ??? …

I have a laptop which is given to me by my company. When i am inside my company's network, I am able to browse the net via the proxy. I can also browse when I am at home - but only when I login into our company's network. I have …

Hello all, There are some empty folders in the Registry that won't delete and I don't know how to get around it? I tried starting the computer in safe mode but it still won't delete?? It's a HP machine with XPSP2. Any thoughts??? Thanks!!

I work at a counseling office and they use a website called Xap.com. The actual website is control.xap.com. Anyways, on a certain computer in the office, internet explorer logs off of the Xap account. This happens every time you try to click on a tab or button while logged into …

I have a WinXP system. When I display the contents of a folder that contains .jpg files and select View|as Thumbnails I dont get the thumbnails of the pics. Instead, I get an icon, all the same, for the files. Thse are good files, because I can double-click on them …

hi all,,dont wat happned my computer got so slow and my pc stucking eveytime so i format the pc and something virus came in ma pc and all drive name changed and cant opening and when i click the any drive> mesge came> open with>i tried many times to fix …

I need to delete my cookies and temp files, but when I went to tools internet options, it clicks off, so I cant go there please help me. Thank you.

Well I set up my server and basically what I need to do is make a virtual host to point to my lan IP so people can use the FTP functions. My Server ------> Virtual Server ---------->User Something basically like that, know I know I need to use port forwarding …

im new to forums and asking for help. but heres my problem. after putting my computer successfully in standby, when it returns from standby, the pc starts up (hear the fans start running) but the monitor wont return from standby (orange light stays on) its happened after installing a new …

hey everybody,!, i recently downloaded firefox as am a loyal firefox user, and after about 10 minutes of using it a message came up saying how firefox is not compatible with windows ultimate, and the laptop goes into vista basic mode which ofcourse is not as good! and it only …

Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is a mighty paradox. On the one hand, it's more robust and feature-rich than any of its predecessors. For the most part, it's also more secure and is immune to many pretty sophisticated takedown attempts. But it's got one nasty Achilles' Heel, which'll enable you …

Well folks, Im gonna slug it out. Im going to comtinue using Vista until they fix it or I will the lottery (come-on baby!!!). I have been using Vista for about 3 months now and have had my share of problems, even to the point of reformating ... twice ... …

How much Ram use is normal for Vista? Basically even sitting at the desktop im seeing 50% of physicall memory usage. the system has 1gig in it right now, with no open slots.

Hello, I would like to know which antivirus software to select from the following: Norton 360 Mcafee Trend MIcro NOD 32 MicroWorld eScan ISS I was using Norton for quite sometime now, but due to the stress it gives to the system I stopped using it. Currently I'm using MicroWorld's …

Hi, I have two startup problems with my computer which happened recently after i did some cleaning out of my computer. I doubt they are related though, since they didn't happen at exactly the same time. Firstly, whenever I start Windows, I get a "Windows cannot find file \VCI_Task.exe" error. …

[I]i have just started having trouble with my pc it will boot the motherboard settings so i can go into the bios etc. and as soon as it comes to the windows boot, it will display nothing when it should... [/I]

Recently upped my memory from 256 to 760 MB. Surfing from page to page still takes longer than the old dial-up days. For example, from the time I signed onto my home page until I got to this thread was nearly ten minutes. I've checked my task manager, and it …

Hey, I was wondering if someone could help me out here. Well for the past month I have been having trouble burning my Back-up dvd movies. What happens most of the time is, the movie will burn all the way through on "Nero" and when it gets done, I put …

Hey everyone. My PC's had a new qwirk as of late. It seems now whenever I try to play a game, watch movies, or stay on the computer too long, it automatically shuts off and tries to restart, but before it can log on it restarts itself and continues this …

Im running windows vista ulitmate and for some reason when i open internet explorer the internet explorer security box pops up and says [B]A WEBSITE WANTS TO OPEN WEB CONTENT USING THIS PROGRAM ON YOUR COMPUTER[/B] The name is windows host process (rundll32) the publisher is microsoft windows. Then it …